Skew-product dynamical systems for crossed product $C^*$-algebras and their ergodic properties

TL;DR

This paper extends classical skew-product dynamical systems to the noncommutative setting of crossed product $C^*$-algebras, analyzing their ergodic properties and generalizing known classical results.

Contribution

It introduces a noncommutative analogue of skew-product systems within $C^*$-algebras and studies their ergodic properties, broadening the understanding of dynamical systems in operator algebras.

Findings

Defined ergodic properties for noncommutative skew-product systems

Established conditions for ergodicity and mixing in the crossed product setting

Generalized classical skew-product results to the noncommutative framework

Abstract

Starting from a discrete $C^*$-dynamical system $(\mathfrak{A}, \theta, \omega_o)$, we define and study most of the main ergodic properties of the crossed product $C^*$-dynamical system $(\mathfrak{A}\rtimes_\alpha\mathbb{Z}, \Phi_{\theta, u},\om_o\circ E)$, $E:\mathfrak{A}\rtimes_\alpha\mathbb{Z}\rightarrow\ga$ being the canonical conditional expectation of $\mathfrak{A}\rtimes_\alpha\mathbb{Z}$ onto $\mathfrak{A}$, provided $\a\in\aut(\ga)$ commute with the $*$-automorphism $\th$ up tu a unitary $u\in\ga$. Here, $\Phi_{\theta, u}\in\aut(\mathfrak{A}\rtimes_\alpha\mathbb{Z})$ can be considered as the fully noncommutative generalisation of the celebrated skew-product defined by H. Anzai for the product of two tori in the classical case.